Hansen Park
Sir,—-It is significant that the parks committee of the City Council, while still defending its expedient choice of Hansen Park as the provincial headquarters of softball, has not attempted to answer the well-founded objections of residents. The expected flood of public protest having been delayed by a five-year veil of secrecy, the committee relies instead on disingenuous defence: “It is now too late, too expensive, and too inconvenient to consider alternatives.” The deviousness has not impressed the public or, apparently, some fellow councillors. The committee would get more sympathy from both if it were able to substantiate publicly claims that at Hansen Park the Softball Association would be given rights of control and be permitted levels of use little different from those customary in other suburban parks. That is certainly not the understanding of residents. It is time the committee came clean.—Yours, etc., A. R. CANT. September 9, 1986.
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